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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 4, 2024 9:25:04 GMT
Labour gained five from Con. Details tomorrow That’s an appalling situation for some people.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 3, 2024 22:36:42 GMT
Byelection results that I don't think have been declared yet:
Brighton and Hove, Kemptown Brighton and Hove, Queen's Park Hackney, De Beauvoir Hackney, Hoxton East and Shoreditch Warwick, Leamington Clarendon
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 3, 2024 21:17:50 GMT
So final composition looks like L Dem 17, C 11, Lab 7, Ind 4.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 3, 2024 19:43:11 GMT
Wimborne Minster Shane Bartlett Lib Dem 1161 David Morgan Lib Dem 1067 Sue Cook Local Conservative 493 Mike Bartlett Local Conservative 451 Ashley Rowlands Labour 283 2 x Lib Dem Hold I might as well say this now; Sue Cook has pulled out.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 3, 2024 19:37:57 GMT
If you pitched a novel with a character having something like Alan Amos's political career, the editor would suggest it was totally implausible and should be rewritten to be believable.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 3, 2024 19:23:49 GMT
As pointed out by Patrick Maguire himself:
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 3, 2024 18:49:52 GMT
Conservatives are the largest party but this is one of those councils they used to completely dominate, often winning every ward.
Final tally is C 13, Lab 10, L Dem 7, GP 4, Ref UK 2. I can see a rainbow coalition of Labour, Lib Dem and Green might appeal?
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Dorset
May 3, 2024 18:37:24 GMT
Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 3, 2024 18:37:24 GMT
Still waiting for the result from Swanage to see if the "not just saying the quiet bit out loud, but shouting very loudly about it" Conservative leaflet will work.
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Surrey
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 3, 2024 18:33:18 GMT
Elmbridge TOWNSEND Lisa Conservative Candidate - More Police, Safer Streets 15052 39.4% KENNEDY Paul Liberal Democrat 14411 37.7% COLEY Alex Foy Independent 4822 12.6% CHIN Kate Labour Party 3942 10.3% (I don't think the Elmbridge borough council election results, none of which had been declared by 6 pip emma, will look like this ....) Pity Epsom and Ewell isn't having elections this year, but it does say a great deal about the electoral appeal of the Residents' Associations in suburban north Surrey. Possible the rural east and south Surrey Residents' Associations may be slightly different.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 3, 2024 18:29:19 GMT
Far fewer than the number who proudly voted for him 'cos he's a great guy who's been an effective Mayor.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 2, 2024 12:34:59 GMT
He speaks very highly of you.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 1, 2024 13:53:12 GMT
Thanks. I managed to download it, but only after using the VPN to go to a US IP address. Very odd.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 1, 2024 13:22:47 GMT
Can anyone else access Worcester City Council's website? I have tried multiple times on different computers and although downforeveryoneorjustme.com/worcester.gov.uk?www=1 tells me it is working for everyone, I get absolutely nothing back. I am trying to download their notice of poll for the City Council elections.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 30, 2024 19:44:34 GMT
Monty Panesar comes from Luton - why Southall? I presume because he's Sikh, and Ealing Southall has the highest proportion of Sikhs in any constituency (although at only 19% of total population).
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 30, 2024 10:20:10 GMT
Ali has not been reselected and there have been rumours that the NEC wants to get rid of him. Ali is on the list of candidates for 2024 GE on Labour party website. vote.labour.org.uk/results?search=birmingham(the party website has Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North still without a candidate but Byrne was a late re-selection last month and it hasn't been updated yet or the the approval hasn't gone through NEC organization committee yet). I'm not sure that site is proof that he has been selected. For instance, there has been no selection in Queen's Park and Maida Vale CLP. Search for it and you find it lists Karen Buck as sitting MP (in the same way as Tahir Ali is listed in Birmingham).
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 30, 2024 9:11:46 GMT
Ali has not been reselected and there have been rumours that the NEC wants to get rid of him. However he swiftly gave an apology after his PMQs rant, which was humiliating but might have justified throwing him out if he hadn't. And judging by this, he seems well aware that a strong declaration of loyalty is needed after this rumour:
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 30, 2024 9:01:47 GMT
If it were up to the forum I suspect it would've been given a name like 'Keynsham' (which is certainly nicer) And conduct the subsequent Count by the fully validated Horace Batchelor 'Infra Draw' method. At least people of a certain age would know how to spell the constituency name.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 30, 2024 8:42:01 GMT
Claudia Webbe might as well go - she's got no way back to Labour and nothing to lose.
Tahir Ali would be throwing away a 26,507 Labour majority and the influence of being a government backbencher, and would have to be bonkers to switch. (On the other hand, unattributably flirting with defecting might shore up his vote)
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 29, 2024 22:58:44 GMT
Where the hell is Hanham? Surely one of the more obscure constituency nomenclatures? Lesmahagow is smaller, and also widely mispronounced.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 29, 2024 21:40:14 GMT
Because Cleveland had to be abolished, and that meant either Hartlepool became a unitary on its own, or it was force-merged with Stockton. Whereas taking Oxford out of Oxfordshire would destabilise service delivery from the County Council. Hartlepool and Stockton could have merged (back) into Durham, though the part of Stockton south of the Tees would have marched with pitchforks as a result. Likewise, Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh (now Redcar and Cleveland) could have "returned" to North Yorkshire, and no pitchforks would have resulted. But there was a reason that Teesside county borough, and subsequently Cleveland county, were created, and cross-river bodies still function for that reason. 1) All hail Emperor Thread-drift 2) The first proposals of the Banham Commission covered both Cleveland and Durham, but clearly recommended Hartlepool be a unitary council on its own; the main alternative considered was a unitary Hartlepool with Teesside forming a single unitary council instead of three separate ones. This was on the basis of "the very strong sense of identity and community in Hartlepool".
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